Untitled (Forgotten Game) by Joseph Cornell
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Forgotten Game)

Joseph Cornell · c. 1949

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Sold by the artist to Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago; sold to Lindy and Edwin Bergman, Chicago, 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1982.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Egan Gallery, Aviary by Joseph Cornell, 1949-50, no. 23, as Forgotten Game.
  • New York Public Library, Central Children’s Room, The Fairy Tale World, 1950, no cat.
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Art and the Found Object, 1959, no cat.
  • New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Joseph Cornell, 1967, no cat. nos., pp. 20, 23.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Modern Masters from Chicago Collections, 1972, no cat. nos., n. pag.
  • Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cornell in Chicago, 1973-74, no cat. nos., no pag. (ill. on cover).
  • Houston, Rice University, Institute of Arts, Joseph Cornell, 1977, no cat.
  • New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Joseph Cornell, 1980-82, traveled to London, Düsseldorf, Florence, Paris, and Chicago, no. 169 (ill.), and pp. 29, 107, fig. 21 (New York and Chicago only).

Literature

Published references

  • Marcel Jean with Arpad Mezei, The History of Surrealist Painting, tr. by Simon Watson Taylor, London, 1960, p. 317 (ill.), as Forgotten Game.
  • David Bourdon, “Imagined Universe Stored in Boxes,” Life 63 (Dec. 15, 1967), p. 59 (ill.).
  • Dore Ashton, A Joseph Cornell Album, 1974, p. 25 (ill.).
  • Diane Waldman, Joseph Cornell, 1977, p. 26 and pl. 22.
  • Dickran Tashjian, Joseph Cornell: Gifts of Desire, Miami Beach, FL, 1992, p. 87 and pl. 27.
  • Sakura, Japan, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Joseph Cornell: Seven Boxes by Joseph Cornell, 1993, exh. cat., p. 21 and fig. 30.

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